Azure Cloud Computing Engineer

Description

SAIC is seeking an Azure Cloud Computing Engineer for the Cloud One program under the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center Office for Network Integration (AFLCMC/HNI). The Cloud One Common Computing Environment is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data that will serve the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army (USA). Cloud One incorporates the capabilities of commercial cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSP) residing in Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Cloud One facilitates the USAF and USA's efforts to migrate applications to a cloud environment, allowing the closure of data centers to support the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and allowing for increased efficiencies across the entire spectrum of the USAF and USA's IT operations. This candidate will be part of a team responsible for the management, operations, support, and oversight of the Cloud One Azure environments.

This position is 100% remote.

Job Responsibilities:

• Designs, plans, and integrates cloud computing and virtualization systems.
• Assists in identifying, evaluating, and implementing tools and services for the most efficient solution to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services and meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Develops and conducts testing of cloud and virtualization systems.
• Maintains technical expertise in relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling.
• Provides mentorship to less experienced cloud engineers to achieve goals in accordance with established policies.
• Works within the Agile Framework under the guidance and mentorship of seasoned cloud engineers to meet operational and scheduling objectives.
• Researches and evaluates technical capabilities and new security tools and products against operational requirements and introduces them to the enterprise in alignment with C1 strategy, and roadmap to assure the availability, the offensive and defensive capability design and troubleshoot and problem solve technical and non-technical issues.
• Develops technical solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Works in a virtualized Azure cloud environment via both graphical (Azure Portal) and command-line interfaces (Powershell, CloudShell, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server Core).
• Works with automated configuration management tools, including software such as Powershell, Ansible, Terraform, Kusto Query Language, and Desired State Configuration.
• Employs security, automation, and orchestration to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure at scale.
• Troubleshoots infrastructure problems and working with a team to resolve large-scale production issues.
• Daily use of agile framework, performance monitoring, and automation tools.
• Minimizes risk of reliability related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness.
• Proactively identifies and resolves operational, tooling, and process inefficiencies.
• Responds to customer incident tickets promptly and maintain regular contact with customers for the duration of the incident.
• Provides technical assistance and training to users and other team members.

Qualifications

Required Clearance:

• Active Interim Secret clearance.
• US Citizenship required.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's and two (2) years of experience in an IT related discipline.
• Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Required Qualifications:

• Security + certification
• In-depth understanding of and experience with deployments of various systems to Azure cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Azure services, including Azure Active Directory, Azure Managed Service Identity, Azure Automation, Azure Functions, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Desired State Config (DSC), Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Policy, and Azure App Service.
• Experience working projects that use CI/CD and streamlined DevOps workflows such as Azure Pipelines/TFS, GitLab.
• Experience with scripting using Windows PowerShell, Shell scripts, Python, or other similar languages
• Experience working on integrated teams requiring high levels of customer contact and collaboration, design, implementation, and involvement in project planning.
• Experience with DevSecOps, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices.
• Experience of design and implementation of IaaS and PaaS solutions executed and repeated in DevOps solution framework and with DevOps tools.

Desired Qualifications:

• An Azure/AWS certification.
• SAFe DevOps certification.
• Experience supporting software migration efforts.
• Experience in an MSP or other IT company highly desirable.

Target salary range: $40,001 - $80,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.